Foniiiiiiii/na.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 317 



Present Occurrence. — Off tlie Snares ; 60 fatlioms ; very rare. Twenty miles 

 north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; very rare. Ten miles north of Enderby 

 Island ; 8.5 fathoms : verv rare. 



Biloculina elongata, d'Orbigny. 



Biloculina elongata, d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. vii, j). 298, No. 4. 



B. elongata, d'Orb., Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix, p. 144, pi. ii, 



figs. 9 rt. b. B. elongata, d'Orb., Howchin, 1889, Trans. R. Soc. S. 



Australia, vol. xii, p. i. B. elongata, d'Orb., Schlumberger, 1891, 



Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. iv. p. 571, pis. xi and xii, figs. 87-89 ; 



woodcuts, 35,' 36. B. elongata, d'Orb., Millett, 1898, Journ. R. Micr. 



Soc, p. 263. B. elongata, d'Orb., Chapman, 1907, Journ. Linn. Soc. 



Lond.. Zool., vol. xxx, p. 15, pi. i, fig. 14. 



Distribution. — This species has a wide geographical range. Dr. Brady remarks 



that it is most abundant in the North Atlantic and South Pacific. Mr. Millett 



records it from the Malay Archipelago. Mr. Howchin and the writer obtained it as 



a fossil from the Victorian Tertiaries. 



Present Occurrence. — Oft' the Snares ; 60 fathoms ; very rare. 



Biloculina irregularis, d'Orbigny. 



Biloculina irregularis, d'Orbigny, 1839, Foram. Amer. Merid., p. 67, pi. viii, 

 figs. 22-24. B. irregularis, d'Orb., Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix, 

 p. 140, pi. i, figs. 17, 18. B. irregularis, cl'Orb., Egger, 1893, Abhandl. 

 k. bayer. Akad. Wiss., cl. ii, vol. xviii, abth. ii, p. 216, pi. i, figs. 13-15. 

 B. irregularis, d'Orb., Flint, 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. for 1897, p. 295, 

 pi. xii, fig. 3. B. irregularis, d'Orb., Chapman, 1907, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond., Zool., vol. xxx, p. 15, pi. i, figs. 5, 6. 

 Our specimens are snuill, but otherwise typical. 



Distribution. — The " Challenger " obtained examples from the' New Zealand 

 area, as well as from the Canaries (off Palma), 1,125 fathoms ; oft' Sombrero Island, 

 450 fathoms ; south of Pernambuco, 350 fathoms ; South Atlantic, 1,415 fathoms ; 

 off Fi]i, 610 fathoms ; off Tahiti, 620 fathoms ; and north of Papua, 1,070 fathoms. 

 Dr. Egger obtained it from " Gazelle " material off Kerguelen, 104 metres, and oft' 

 the Western Australian coast, 359 metres. 



Present Occurrence. — Twenty miles north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; 

 very common. 



Biloculina globulus, Bornemann. 



Biloculina globulus, Bornemann, 1855, Zeitscher. d. deutsch. geol. Gesellsch., 

 vol. vii, p. 349, pi. xix, fig. 3. B. globulus, Born., Schlumberger, 1891, 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. iv, p. 575, pi. xii, figs. 97-100 ; wood- 

 cuts, 42-44. B. globulus. Born., Chapman, 1907, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond., Zool., vol. xxx, p. 15, pi. i, figs. 17, 18. 

 Distribution. — In the " Challenger " Report Dr. H. B. Brady unites this species, 

 unfortunately, with Planispirina (" Biloculina ") sphaera, so that we camiot follow 



